PCF in three simple steps

1, 2, 3, that's the whole setup

Click through each step to see how data moves through ChainTraced. No big-bang implementation or six months of onboarding, we create value from the very beginning.

Step 01

Upload products and core emission estimate

Provide products with BOM data, suppliers and their purchase share and any existing production emission estimates. ChainTraced imports the data from excel files or directly from your ERP system.

1,284 products · 4,762 BOM links

Product

Components

Suppliers

Hydraulic cylinder rod Ø80

Chrome-plated rod bar

Nordbruk Stål

Mälarforge AB

Threaded end cap

Donau Forge GmbH

Seal kit NBR

Baltic Polymer

Rheinseal GmbH

Forged flange DN200 PN40

Forged ring blank

Donau Forge GmbH

Bolt set A4-80

Falkström Metals

Uddevalla Fasteners

Stainless plate 6mm 316L

Hot-rolled slab 316L

Falkström Metals

Edge-trim scrap credit

Nordbruk Stål

Vänern Recycling

Best available data per supplier

kg CO₂e / kg

1. Supplier product PCF2. Supplier category data3. Secondary dataset

Nordbruk Stål

Chrome-plated rod bar · 12.4 kg

Supplier product PCF

Emissions source

Art. 4471-080

Transport

+0.14

Allocated

2.32

Donau Forge GmbH

Forged ring blank · 8.0 kg

Supplier category data

Emissions source

Forged rings (category)

Transport

+0.21

Allocated

3.26

Falkström Metals

Hot-rolled slab 316L · 6.0 kg

Secondary dataset

Emissions source

Stainless steel, Sweden

Transport

+0.19

Allocated

4.61

Finished product PCFPrimary data share: 23%

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Product Carbon Footprint

ISO 14067 · cradle-to-gate, per kg

3.41 kg CO₂e

Digital Product Passport

Material composition, origin and certificates

Passport link

Recipients

Nordvik Machinery Group

PCF + Digital Product Passport · 412 products

Shared

Rheinbach Industrietechnik

PCF only · 188 products

Shared

Meridian Drivetrain Systems

Passport awaiting customer approval · 96 products

Pending

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Products uploaded

ChainTraced Component Factor Library

Modelled secondary data at component level

Where suppliers' primary data is difficult to obtain, ChainTraced falls back to its own modelled emission factors for components and materials. This allows us to fill the gaps in primary data with regionalised industry specific secondary data.

Stainless steel bolts, China

5.84

Forged rings, India

3.12

Cold-rolled coil 1.4404, EU

2.47

Chrome-plated rod, Sweden

1.96

kg CO₂e per kg, cradle-to-gate

DECARBONISATION DASHBOARD – EXAMPLE

See where to improve, not only what you emit

ChainTraced ranks every supplier in your value chain by its contribution to your product carbon footprint, and shows the two numbers that decide what to do next: how much of the data is primary, and how carbon-intense each kilo of material is.

Emissions concentrate. A handful of suppliers usually carry half the footprint, so the areas for improvement are a short, specific list rather than a whole supply base.

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Supplier concentration

Supply base concentration

Top 1.3% = 50% of footprint

Priority suppliers tCO₂e kg/kg Primary

1 Yashram Fasteners Industries

5 448 6.45 0%

2 Chien Ta Hardware Corporation

3 454 3.28 97%

3 Phuoc An Metal JSC

3 326 3.29 97%

4 Jia Wei Precision Corporation

2 793 3.15 97%

5 Hanbit Metal Co., Ltd.

2 688 5.76 0%

Illustrative data, metal components category.

- AFTER DAY ONE

Replace generic factors with primary data — one supplier at a time.

Once the platform is live, ChainTraced lets you request PCF data directly from your suppliers. Every response that comes back swaps a generic factor for a measured one. Confidence climbs. Reductions become real.

Day 1

Setup complete

Mostly generic factors. PCF on every product.

29% primary-data coverage

Day 30

First wave of supplier requests in

Top-spend suppliers respond. Customs of certificates link automatically.

58% primary-data coverage

Day 90

Production data flowing

Lot-level PCFs replace material-level averages. Customer audits pass first time.

84% primary-data coverage

THE BUSINESS VALUE

Product Carbon Footprint reporting has become a precondition for doing business

Tier-1 customers are pushing PCF requirements deep into the supply chain. Without numbers, you exit the bid. We help you improve visibility of your upstream emissions, save time with automated allocation and reporting of Product Carbon Footprint.

Regulation is closing in

Access reliable data

Easy access to primary data from raw material suppliers, and ready modelled secondary datasets (e.g. worldsteel and ecoinvent)

Regulation is closing in

Leverage PCF to your customers

Empower your customers on their decarbonisation journey by providing a more accurate and dynamic PCF that can both be optimised over time and promote the whole value chains sustainability efforts.

Regulation is closing in

Manage your core emissions

You cannot decarbonise what you do not measure. ChainTraced combines your upstream emissions with your internal core emissions and generate a scaleable accounting method for calculating your own PCF.

Fast track your PCF baseline

1, 2, 3, that's the whole setup

Upload products and core emission estimate

Modelled secondary data at component level

See where to improve, not only what you emit

Replace generic factors with primary data — one supplier at a time.

Product Carbon Footprint reporting has become a precondition for doing business

Request a demo